Nemesis, view #2....

READERS: THIS IS PART TWO OF A POST I MISTAKENLY PUT ON A SEPERATE THREAD FROM PART ONE. IF YOU CARE TO LOOK, THERE SHOULD BE A SECOND THREAD NEARBY IN MY NAME. THANKS, AND APOLOGIES FOR MY NEWBIE ERROR...

I have been searching for weeks for an image or description of this type of wound on Hibiscus, without success. Of course if I could ID the thing, I could perhaps save these guys, but without knowing what I'm dealing with it's pretty much a shot in the dark.

Can anyone advise me whether or not to cut away the damaged parts, or let the plants try to recover on their own? (It's been a couple of weeks since treating them, and they don't appear to me to be healing.) The wounds are so diffuse that if I removed all the damage, it could affect as much as 25 - 50 % of the outer layers. I'm not sure that even a healthy plant could survive that. Can anyone recommend a method of treatment, and whether I should wait to ID it, or just deal with it asap, before it goes any further.... Any products you can suggest I try?

Many thanks for your support, Polly

This message was edited Jul 16, 2006 2:29 PM

Oh Polly I have no clue, I am so sorry. We need to get Carlo and Kyle to come look. I have never seen this before. I wish I could help. I know you must be so upset.


I know you are new here Polly so I just wanted to let you know that sometimes it is more helpful if you post your pictures of the same problem on one thread so the person viewing them can look at each easily instead of hunting for the other thread.

Kell,
Thank you so much for pointing that out to me. I guess I thought I was putting it on the same thread, but now that you mention it, that's not what I did. Shoot! maybe I can note my error and direct people to the other thread (?!).
I am going to have to accelerate my DG learning curve in a big way! It wore me out trying to get the #$%&* blurry pictures on in the first place!
I would like to cross-post these 2 entries to Garden Foes... the faq's say to "ask first"... whom should I ask, do you know? How about I just ask you?! :-)

Thanks a million for setting me straight! I have an inkling that this may not be the last time, either! Polly

Oh do not worry about it Polly. I do a lot worse things on here, believe me. I just hope you get the answers you need. It looks bad to me.

You may just want to add your second picture onto your first thread. That will bring that thread to the top for attention and then both pictures will be on it. Then just let this thread die.

Kell,
Can you explain, in a thousand words or less, how I can put the two posts together? My brain hurts from too many mental tasks today. Or, as I'm known to say, "I tried to think, but nothing happened..."
If I'd known there was a way to do that, I certainly would have. Sigh.
Thanks for helping me, as I clumsily flounder about ... Polly

Polly just copy it to this post or this one to the first post. Just post as you have talking back and forth to Kell here in this thread

or you can go back to the first post you started and click on edit below your name in the left colum and add it to it as I have done here

edited as an example

This message was edited Jul 16, 2006 11:03 PM

Except you can't add a picture for editted posts I think, Donna.

But you just do what Donna said, start a new post like you are answering yourself and just put the second picture in on the bottom of the YOUR MESSAGE space..............go to BROWSE. I think you have to have typed in at least 1 letter in the big box you post your message in for it to accept a picture.